Internet Origins: Ken McCarthy On 'How The Web Won' & The Rise Of A Connected World
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Our world has become fully interconnected through technology — specifically the Internet. While many of us can't imagine life without it, everything has a beginning. So, how was the Internet born, and how has it evolved into what we know today? Who better to discuss this intriguing topic than Internet marketing pioneer and specialist Ken McCarthy?
In this episode, Ken returns to the podcast to talk about his latest book, How the Web Won, a story that documents the critical formative years of the World Wide Web from 1993 to 1995. Told from the perspective of one of the masterminds behind this victory for human freedom, this narrative lays out how the Internet became a multi-trillion-dollar marketplace capable of impeccable things.
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- The history of the Internet, and how it evolved over the years.
- The key years of the 1990’s for the rise of technology.
- How the Internet slowly became available for civilian use.
Ken is the founder of The System Club, is an internet marketing pioneer, and has interviewed many individuals on the topic of marketing. To follow along with his work, visit his website here!
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| 0:30.3 | This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast. I have a returning guest. He never |
| 0:43.4 | seems to run out of things to say, very interesting things. So I have Ken McCarthy. Ken has been |
| 0:48.9 | involved in internet marketing for as long as there has been internet marketing and before |
| 0:53.7 | there's been internet marketing and before there's been |
| 0:54.4 | internet marketing he runs what's called the system club that has just again an endless i guess |
| 0:59.9 | stream of audio content and written content and things that he's produced over the years he's |
| 1:05.8 | interviewed many of the top people in internet marketing and in in general. And he's been writing a whole |
| 1:12.0 | series of books lately. And one in particular that I picked up, I think is great. It's called How the |
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